Thimbles & Tales Bluework from the French Country Kitchen pdf

Bring the timeless beauty of blue-and-white French country style into your kitchen—one simple stitch at a time.

French Country Bluework for the Kitchen is a charming collection of eight original embroidery designs created especially for kitchen towels. Inspired by the simplicity of traditional redwork, these designs are stitched primarily in a single beautiful shade of blue, using easy outline stitches and no heavily filled areas.

Perfect for beginners and relaxing enough for experienced stitchers, each project includes a finished-project inspiration page, the story behind the design, a transfer pattern, and an easy stitching and finishing guide.

Inside you'll discover:

• 8 original French-country bluework towel designs
• Full-size transfer patterns
• Simple, beginner-friendly embroidery stitches
• Tips for smooth curves, neat starts and stops, and beautiful outlines
• Help with common bluework problems
• Tiny French motifs and borders for personalizing your projects
• Ideas for adding gingham, ribbon and rickrack
• Ways to use the designs on napkins, aprons, bread cloths, basket liners and more
• Pretty ideas for displaying embroidered towels in your kitchen
• Easy recipes to cook while you stitch
• A project journal for keeping the story of the pieces you make

Stitch an old French kitchen scale piled with pears, a charming café chair, a copper pot rack, pastries from the pâtisserie, an old-fashioned coffee mill, a sunny kitchen window, an egg-gathering apron and a wonderful French kitchen clock.

Then discover how changing just one thing—the shade of blue—can give the very same pattern an entirely different personality.

You don't need complicated stitches or a basket overflowing with supplies.

A little white cloth.
A length of blue thread.
A few simple stitches.

Sometimes that's all it takes to make an ordinary kitchen feel a little more like home.

Thimbles & Tales
Stitch • Gather • Create • Enjoy